Year: 2007

  • Troubleshooting RSS formatting problems

    During the past week, I’ve noticed that this blog’s RSS feed has been displaying content as single blocks of unformatted text. No paragraphs, no working links, just blocks of text. I’ve had a number of emails from subscribers, too, pointing this…

  • Up and running with Windows Vista

    Installing a new operating system on your PC isn’t a task you undertake lightly, especially when the operating system you want to install is substantially advanced and, well, different to the one you’ve been used to for some years. This…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #230: April 9, 2007

    Content summary: Scholarly research examines the role of black bloggers; ‘no comment’ doesn’t cut it anymore: blogosphere PR tips from BusinessWeek; Twitter vs Jaiku; demographics of visitors to UK blogs; Sallie Goetsch reports from the Podcast Asylum; listeners’ comments discussion;…

  • Content tagging and sharing now really delicious

    I’m probably a typical web user. Whenever I see a website page or a blog post that has something interesting, I’ll bookmark it in Firefox (or add it to favorites in Internet Explorer). That’s the traditional way of keeping track…

  • Painless WordPress upgrading

    New versions of WordPress keep popping out of the woodwork, it seems. Two new bugfix/security updates were announced a few days ago – version 2.1.3 and version 2.0.10. If you’re running version 2.1.x, upgrade to 2.1.3. If you’re running 2.0.x,…